Yair Netanyahu

In an escalating war of words on Saturday, Labor head Amir Peretz accused the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair, of being “more dangerous” in his incitement than Yigal Amir, the Jewish extremist who murdered then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Earlier in the day, Peretz threatened to…

Yuval Rabin, son of slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, on Saturday said that a recent tweet by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair, alleging that Rabin “murdered Holocaust survivors on the Altalena” was a “direct continuation” of a notorious 1995 poster depicting Rabin in an SS uniform, shortly before his…

Labor Party leader Amir Peretz on Saturday threatened to file a libel suit against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son for criticizing former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Peretz said he instructed the party’s legal advisers to draw up the suit after Yair Netanyahu alleged that Rabin, who led Labor before his…

A former close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told police investigators that the premier’s wife and son made him ensure that all communications with the wife of an Israeli telecommunications tycoon at the center of a corruption investigation were deleted. Nir Hefetz, who was the Netanyahu family’s most…